Words matter. These are the best Adam Silvera Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think I’m capable of giving a character every possible victory, no matter how much I love them, without feeling as if their ending isn’t genuine to their actual trials.
It wasn’t until I hit 20 that I became an obsessive reader, I think, which feels a little funny considering I was a bookseller for five years and have been reviewing YA novels for four years.
Being more happy than not helps you get up every day.
Death is the one – the one thing we don’t have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don’t know what comes next, and that’s something that’s always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
I haven’t written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief – or what I expect grief to be.
There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.
My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters come from single households. That was something that, when I lived in South Bronx, that’s what it was like.
I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that’s all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.
Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they’re alive as if they’re dead.
The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.
I’m always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives… or doesn’t.
Writing is my therapy.
There are happy stories out there, but I think some of them may raise false expectations for teens.
When you’re overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I’m in the middle of because my thought channel just won’t help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.
Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.
